Photo: Spring time in a park, Jiangsu Province, by taohongliulv via fengniao.com
Spring time in a park, Jiangsu Province, by taohongliulv via fengniao.com
Read MoreMartin Jacques: East is east – get used to it
From the Guardian: Not so long ago, Japan was the height of fashion. Then came the post-bubble recession and it rapidly faded into the background, condemned as yesterday’s story…No doubt the same fate will befall China in due course, though perhaps a little less dramatically because of its sheer size and import. These vagaries tell […]
Read MoreXinran: The Chinese chatroom
In the Guardian, Xinran writes: The Chinese chatroom I visited, www.qq.com, was already full of “Wang-Min”- internet obsessives – fighting over the issue of “how to view love affairs”. I immediately regretted that I had not visited the site earlier. It is a really good place to find “freedom of the press” from Chinese women: […]
Read MoreDavid Kirkpatrick: China’s Future: A Nation of Geeks?
From Fortune Magazine: You already knew that most of your electronic devices are made in China. But it is becoming state-of-the-art in the use of technology too. For instance, China has 350 million cellphone users, according to Information Industry Minister Wang Xudong, who spoke at the FORTUNE Global Forum earlier this week in Beijing. That’s […]
Read MoreKathleen E. McLaughlin: Project to save rare deer wins China conservation award
From the San Francisco Chronicle: The Beijing and Shishou David’s Deer Reintroduction Project is one of five groups slated to be feted today at the first China Wildlife Conservation Awards, a milestone in improving relations between environmentalists and Chinese authorities, according to Steve Trent, president of San Francisco- based WildAid… WildAid and the China Environmental […]
Read MoreWhy Chinese museums on edge of survival?
From China Daily: China has more than 2,200 museums, running 8,000 exhibitions annually with visitors totaling 160 million. However, two-thirds of them are now on the edge of survival due to shortage of funds. Most of those threatened are small and medium-sized museums in central and western China, according to Zhang Wenbin, director the Chinese […]
Read MoreNew anti-corruption method sparks debate
From China Daily: The Municipal Government of Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, issued a regulation in May requiring officials to report their extramarital affairs, with a belief that the stipulation could curb corruption. According to Marriage Law revision expert panel statistics, 95 percent of China’s convicted corrupt officials had mistresses. In south China’s […]
Read MoreAdam Wolfe: Domestic threats to China’s rise
From Asia Times: Knowing that its geopolitical power is directly tied to China’s economic rise and the perception that it will continue for the midterm, Beijing has limited its other geopolitical ambitions for the moment and has pursued the “waiting game”, sensing that its hand will increase in value as the game continues, as long […]
Read MoreAdam L. Penenberg: Ready or Not, China Gets Blogged
From Wired Magazine: Last month, when anti-Japanese sentiment in China had reached a fever pitch, Edwyn Chan conducted an experiment… Chan, who was raised in Hong Kong but today calls Chengdu, Sichuan, home, realized that doing anything that involves politics could mean trouble, but he also believed this was an opportunity to see whether blogs, […]
Read MoreZi Feiyu: Are High Priced Elementary Schools Against the Mandatory Education Law?
This article is from the Guangzhou Daily by Zi Feiyu. It has been translated by Joseph McMullin via the Press Interpreter: Since the beginning of May, wave after wave of parents have come to enroll their students in prominent private schools. At the same time, a national debate has been launched since a report in […]
Read MoreChina goes undercover to sway opinion on Internet
From Reuters: China has formed a special force of undercover online commentators to try to sway public opinion on controversial issues on the Internet, a newspaper said on Thursday… A special force of online commentators had already been operating in Suqian city in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu since April, the Southern Weekend said. […]
Read MoreRSF: Letter to Larry Page and Sergey Brin: “Will you agree to censor Google?”
From Reporters Without Borders: Following Google’s announcement that it is to open an office in China, Reporters Without Borders has written to the company’s two founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, asking them for a clear response to the following question: “Will you agree to censor your search engine if asked to by Beijing?”
Read MoreCarol Hymowitz: Chinese women bosses: long hours don’t hurt kids
From the Wall Street Journal, via post-gazette.com: “I don’t feel badly at all about going to work and not spending all my time with my son,” says Peggy Yu, co-founder of dangdang.com, China’s largest online retailer. “He has his life (in school), and I have my life.” It is a sentiment shared by many Chinese […]
Read MoreChing-Ching Ni: China’s Use of Child Labor Emerges From the Shadows
From the May 13 Los Angeles Times: The Chinese government officially forbids children under 16 from working, but critics say it does little to enforce the law. Statistics are hard to come by, but in some estimates, as many as 10 million school-age children are doing their part to turn China into a low-cost manufacturing […]
Read MorePhoto: Shanghai buildings, by sarieboo01 from webshot.
Shanghai buildings, by sarieboo01 from webshots.
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